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Horatian ode

American  

noun

Prosody.
  1. an ode consisting of several stanzas all of the same form.


Horatian ode British  

noun

  1. Also called: Sapphic ode.  an ode of several stanzas, each of the same metrical pattern

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Yet Merrill's own repertoire includes a Horatian ode, several forms of sonnets, a slightly modified villanelle and a stretch of Dantesque terza rima.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like a literary connoisseur who rolls a Horatian ode or a Goethean lyric upon his tongue—even thus he enjoyed these sombre stanzas.

From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Lewisohn, Ludwig

The English "Horatian" ode, then, while exhibiting the greatest differences in complexity of stanzaic forms, is "homostrophic."

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss

There was Robert H. Messinger, known through his Horatian ode, Give Me the Old, his fame daily expanding in fashionable and literary circles.

From Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations by Hemstreet, Charles

Why wouldst thou leave calm Hartwell's green abode, Apician table, and Horatian ode, To rule a people who will not be ruled, And love much rather to be scourged than schooled?

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

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